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African American Microfilm Materials

Newspapers, records, pamphlets, and more

This is not a comprehensive list of materials, but a sampling of newspapers, records, pamphlets, and additional items available on microfilm. The majority of these resources are located in the Missouri Valley Room, but some may be available in the Reference Department on the 3rd Floor.

This collection consists of papers and manuscripts from the Kansas State Historical Society regarding the late 1870s westward migration of African Americans. Documents include notes on the Nicodemus settlement, biographies, Kansas Freedman’s Relief Association meeting minutes, and state records. (1 microfilm reel)

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Files

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) File on the National Negro Congress, May 1936-Mar 1952. Files on this coalition of white and black leaders in the Civil Rights Movement. (2 microfilm reels)

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) File on the Black Panther Party in North Carolina. These files trace the efforts of the Black Panther Party to establish chapters in North Carolina, spanning 1968-1976. (2 microfilm reels)

Freedmen's Aid Society

This collection contains records of The Freedmen’s Aid Society, an agency created by the Methodist Episcopal Church after the Civil War to establish schools and colleges for African Americans in the South. The original documents are housed at the Woodruff Library at Gammon Theological Seminary in Atlanta, Georgia. In addition to documenting the work and publications of the Society, the collection contains information about 22 educational institutions that it established. (120 microfilm reels)

Military Records

The Negro in the Military Service of the United States, 1639-1886. (M858, 5 Reels)

Documents Relating to the Military and Naval Service of Blacks Awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor from the Civil War to the Spanish-American War.

Virtually every aspect of slavery is covered. Primary sources on American slavery, from Colonial Era through emancipation, as well as titles on Latin American and Caribbean slavery, and the British and French slave trades from sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries. The 5,914 titles can be searched in the online catalog. (6,720 microfiche)

Tuskegee Institute News Clipping File

Between 1899 and 1966 staff in the Department of Records and Research at the Tuskegee Institute clipped articles from over 300 newspapers and magazines about African Americans in the United States, Africa, and elsewhere. Compiled by workers of the Writers Program of the WPA for "Negroes of New York," 1936-1940. (252 microfilm reels)